Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fda0736aff4f57ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

131.6 KB Created: 2021-08-10 06:08:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6b6aa8da2104a038ed50b6c0548d7753 SHA-1: d0a48f3447ac4a6dfa000540e0ea9820eb739cf1 SHA-256: fda0736aff4f57ac39369fe49850f15dae10b19cbafc4123811f590f4bc085fc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Multiple heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkf822dn0tvvcc1kmnh0inkb45/51289374920.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tw-go.org/files/suvenebozomipewiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/foremudafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/podibamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/56209477907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/30253385699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1988.com/clients/75739/File/18814734362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/posuzovuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d707c695f1c---60004493308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/17168263126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872a124db5f---laxipe.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/9991490487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbdebf0310a25344ad3dac6e2ba03f11/juluvepaxeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/96642994304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/repaxupatelesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/33546257145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fab9aa0888---81860892235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b99379d63dd---wazawomexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/soletoredatana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio6deenero.com/uploaded/files/4896521352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b3f81f348---pukuborula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/fadukozuzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhj00v8m8dr2n5veclplij58n4/mufemodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/70019995387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+play+abalonePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001a39e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A39E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001bbb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BBB5 10216 bytes
SHA-256: e5b335a924ec0ec31a9995014789e6a258868014a627ac27b290c6bd3b4b7bb9
font_02_sfnt_off0001d290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D290 17584 bytes
SHA-256: 7d197b75395f613b178255e2c91338724e1219380e1b1ec8b4f81d0011b52e52